Landess, Thomas H., and Quinn, Richard M.:Jesse Jackson & the Politics of Race
- copertina rigida, flessible 1997, ISBN: 9780915463084
Cape Town, South Africa: SA Scientific Publishing Co., 1953 South Africa's shock election result of 1948 brought the Nationalist government to power, ousting the South Africa Party of… Altro …
Cape Town, South Africa: SA Scientific Publishing Co., 1953 South Africa's shock election result of 1948 brought the Nationalist government to power, ousting the South Africa Party of Jan C. Smuts. This book was an attempt to explain what happened and elucidate the beliefs of Malan and his party. The cover flap reads: "Out of stark headlines, on chattering news agency tapes, from international broadcasting net-works and passed from mouth to mouth in a hundred discordant tongues, the name of Dr. Malan has echoed round the world. To think of South Africa today is to think of Malan. In the eyes of the disciples of his "White man boss" gospel, he has the qualities and mysticism of a saint. Other men Black, Brown, and White call him "a menace to humanity". His sombre, owlish features are a cartoonist's delight, but despairing commentators and gossip writers delving deeply for spice and sparkle in the make-up of the 1953 Kruger have fallen on stony ground. Now-for the first timethe full and fascinating story of Dr. Malan has been told. A well-known British journalist has written a vivid and intimate pen-por trait of the farmer's son who left pulpit and newspaper office to become one of the most intriguing and baffling perso nalities in the gallery of history's elder statesmen. Can apartheidthe ill-famed Malan colour-bar be justified by his Christian principles ? Why does he want a South African Republic? Why does the man who wooed the dictators but won the friendship of British Royalty threaten to quit the United Nations? Whither South Africa? These, and a host of other burning quest ions vital in world affairs, are answered in the bookby Dr. Malan himself! Meet Dr. Malan in its pagesthe real Dr. Malan who shares many of the qualities of Sir Winston Churchill but hates imperialism; who loves ice cream, boiled eggs and children; who played a prank and became an aviation pioneer; who was the life-long friend, but sworn political enemy, of General Smuts; who wrote a solitary fervent love poem, and fearlessly faced the threat of a flogging; who figured in a war-time "spy" mystery, and had the "missing link" coelacanth named after him. The author of "This Man Malan -the chronicle of a Leader and his nation" is 38-year-old Fleet Street newspaperman Eric Robins, a former Major in British Intelligence. Mr. Robins, who in his 20 years' career has been a foreign corres pondent, feature writer, sub-editor, and war correspondent, covered the Nurem berg Trial of Goering and other major Nazi war criminals. Much of the material in his book is based on Mr. Robins's contacts with Dr. Malan over the past five years as correspondent in Southern Africa of the London Daily Mirror and New York Daily News. " ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading copy - previous owner's name and the date 1954 inked neatly on flyleaf. ------------------ Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 4½ " Wide - 7" Tall, SA Scientific Publishing Co., 1953, 2, Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. 24 cm, 269, bibliography, index. Foreword by Ralph Abernathy. A Note on Sources. Index. Thomas Landess graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, received a B.A. and M.A. from Vanderbilt University, served in the United States Army, and received a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Tom taught at Vanderbilt University, Converse College, Furman University, and the University of Dallas for a combined period of over two decades. He published several books and over 100 articles, poems, and reviews for such scholarly publications as the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, and the Georgia Review. In 1982, he left academia and began serving as a ghost writer for major political figures and organizations. Tom proudly served Presidents Reagan and Bush at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1997 he and his wife returned to South Carolina and lived in Columbia where Tom continued writing. He was a regular contributor to Chronicles: A magazine of American Culture. Editorial Reviews: Landess and Quinn have produced what they consider a ``realistic, not romantic'' rendering of the political life of the man they contend used race politics to advance his own aspirations for wealth and power. They paint Jackson as a modern-day black populist in the mold of Southern-white spellbinders like the Talmadges, Longs, and Bilbos. The book is saturated with accusations that Jackson has tended to exaggerate events and play fast and loose with the truth. As proof, examples abound, including references to Jackson's exaggeration of his youth as one of abject poverty and to his problems with funding and tax reports on Operation Push. Landess and Quinn also portray Jackson as a man who desired to be the best-respected black leader at the expense of others in SCLC, and as one who would divide the races unlike Dr. King, who sought unity. Controversial, daring and recommended. Reviewed by Frank Kessler, Political Science Dept., Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph., Jameson Books, 1985, 2.5<
